Kerala special Toddy shop style fish curry &Mashed tapioca

hi friends,

The weather is good for something spicy,so I cooked my favorite, Mouth watering Kerala delicacy Toddy shop fish curry and mashed tapioca, and decided to update the post with some new images.

The Kerala cuisine is famous for its spicy and hot foods and the Toddy shop fish curry and mashed tapioca (kallu shappu style meen curry and kappa vevichathu) is one of the most demanding foods of Kerala,May be my non Kerala friends thinking what is this toddy shops.Toddy shops are small drinking establishments  where palm toddy, a mildly alcoholic beverage made from the sap of palm trees served along with food.The food served with toddy is  very spicy,and the main dish is tapioca with fish curry.

The toddy shop food is very spicy So that the customers may ask for more toddy to cool their flaming tongues.My curry is not that much spicy, but taste very good and finger licking.So here is the recipe of Kerala special toddy shop style fish curry and mashed tapioca.enjoy it………….

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Kerala special Toddy shop style fish curry &Mashed tapioca

spicy Kerala style toddy shop  fish curry.Kerala special red fish curry and mashed tapioca

Course

Main Course

Cuisine

South Indian

Prep Time

20 minutes

Cook Time

20 minutes

Servings

serving

Ingredients

For the fish curry:-

• 500/600 gram King fish
• 100 g shallot
• 3 - 4 nos red chili
• 6 nos chili kashmiri
• 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons coriander powder
• 1/4 teaspoon fenugreek powder
• 3/4 ginger chopped table spoon
• 3/4 garlic chopped table spoon
• 3 - 4 gamboog pieces
• 1 sprig curry leaves
• 1/2 teaspoon mustard seed
• oil
• water

For preparing tapioca:-

• 1 kg tapioca Fresh
• 1/4 teaspoon turmeric
• salt as needed
• water
• coconut oil
• 5 nos shallot
• 1 sprig curry leaves
• 1 - 2 nos red chili whole
• 1 teaspoon mustard seeds

Course Main Course Cuisine South Indian Prep Time 20 minutes Cook Time 20 minutes Servings serving Ingredients For the fish curry:- 500/600 gram King fish 100 g shallot 3 - 4 nos red chili 6 nos chili kashmiri 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder 1 1/2 teaspoons coriander powder 1/4 teaspoon fenugreek powder 3/4 ginger chopped table spoon 3/4 garlic chopped table spoon 3 - 4 gamboog pieces 1 sprig curry leaves 1/2 teaspoon mustard seed oil water For preparing tapioca:- 1 kg tapioca Fresh 1/4 teaspoon turmeric salt as needed water coconut oil 5 nos shallot 1 sprig curry leaves 1 - 2 nos red chili whole 1 teaspoon mustard seeds

Instructions

1. Preparing fish curry:-
2. clean and cut fish in to medium thick pieces.Soak gamboog in 1/4 cup warm water.
3. soak red chili and Kashmeeri chili in hot water for minimum one hour.
4. clean and wash shallots.add the cleaned shallot in to a mixer and crush it well.
5. grind the chili in to a fine paste,add turmeric and coriander powder in to it and grind again and make a fine paste.
6. heat oil in a fish curry pot, add curry leaves and saute well.
7. add chopped garlic and ginger saute well until raw smell goes
8. then add crushed shallots in to it.saute well until shallots become light brown(please don,t let the shallots burn you will get a bitter taste).
9. then add the grounded paste saute till oil comes up
10. then add gamboog and sufficient amount of warm water,( do not add too much water the curry should be medium thick)add sufficient salt.let it boil.
11. Then add fish pieces in to it.Cook in a medium flame.once the fish cooked , switch off stove.
12. heat oil in a pan and splutter mustard seeds.add curry leaves.fry it and pour in to the gravy.
13. keep aside for 30 minutes.serve with kappa.(if you want you can remove the gamboog from curry if you don't like more sour taste)
14. Preparing Tapioca
15. peel the skin of tapioca and cut in to medium cube size pieces,wash well.add cleaned tapioca in to a cooking vessel,add sufficient water,turmeric and salt;cook till it become soft,drain water completely.mash gently and keep aside.
16. heat oil in a pan splutter mustard seeds,add curry leaves and shallot,fry well and add this to the mashed tapioca.mix well and immediately cover with the lid
17. serve with fish curry.